Almost 300,000 people ‘officially’ complete the journey to Santiago each year – hundreds of thousands more travel at least part of the way.

In this book, Richard Frazer discovers on his pilgrimage to the shrine of St James the Great  how a journey – wherever it is made – undertaken with an open and hospitable heart can provide spiritual renewal and transformation, filling what many people see as the spiritual void in 21st century life. 

This absorbing account reveals how the pilgrim journey can be nourishment for the human heart. It connects us to landscape and brings us to the mystery of what it is to be human and vulnerable and open to the kindness of strangers and the gift of the new and the unexpected.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Map
• Foreword
• Prologue: Meeting St Jacques
• 1 Setting Off
• 2 Le Puy-en-Velay
• 3 The Beast of Gévaudan
• 4 The Kindness of Strangers
• 5 Get Thee to a Nunnery
• 6 The Rule of Resonance
• 7 Bread-sharer for the Journey
• 8 Journey to Middle-earth
• 9 The Coupar Angus of France
• 10 The Interior Pilgrimage
• 11 Last Day in France
• 12 Into Spain
• 13 A Pilgrim Community
• 14 The Human Torch
• 15 The Pilgrim’s Tale
• 16 Unexpected Encounter
• 17 Chicken in the Church
• 18 Mind-numbing Meseta
• 19 Deviation to Santander
• 20 Poisoned Food – Poisoned Relationships?
• 21 Into the Mountains
• 22 Santiago, Mata Moros
• 23 Nearing Santiago
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Plates